crowd out a consumer's self-inference of altruism from buying a good bundled with a charitable donation. Alternative …

altruism or warm glow, and individuals would rather not give but dislike saying no, e.g., due to social pressure. We design a … door-to-door fund-raising drive in which some households are informed about the exact time of solicitation with a flyer on … an out-of-state charity. Our welfare calculations suggest that our door-to-door fund-raising campaigns on average lower …

Research has repeatedly shown that altruism is lower in diverse communities. Can this phenomenon be counteracted by … altruism, are in this instance the most amenable to government intervention …

teenagers do not. The evidence is strongly consistent with the child-cycle pattern. Thus, while altruism drives some giving, the …

This study develops theory and uses a door-to-door fundraising field experiment to explore the economics of charity. We … side of charitable fundraising. Empirical results are in line with our theory: in gross terms, our lottery treatments …